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Libraries

Functionality

pandas

Working with "relational" or "labeled" data can be simple and intuitive thanks to the Python module pandas, which offers quick, adaptable, and expressive data structures.

numpy

The Python package NumPy is used to manipulate arrays.

Additionally, it has matrices, Fourier transform, and functions for working in the area of linear algebra.

seaborn

A package called Seaborn uses Matplotlib as its foundation to plot graphs. In order to see random distributions, it will be used.

matplotlib

For the Python programming language & its NumPy numerical mathematics add-on, Matplotlib is a graphing library. It offers an object-oriented API for integrating charts into programs utilizing all-purpose GUI toolkits like Tkinter, wxPython, Qt, or GTK.

sklearn

It includes a variety of classification, regression, and clustering methods, such as support vector machines, random forests, gradient boosting, k-means, and DBSCAN, and is built to work with Python's NumPy and SciPy scientific and numerical libraries.

train_test_split()

Machine learning algorithms applicable to prediction-based algorithms and applications are evaluated using the train-test split. We can compare the output of our own machine-learning model to that of other machines using this quick and simple process.

accuracy_score

This function computes subset accuracy in multilabel classification: the set of labels predicted for a sample must exactly match the corresponding set of labels in y true.

classification_report

A classification report is used to assess the accuracy of a classification algorithm's predictions. How many predictions are correct and how many are incorrect? True Positives, False Positives, True Negatives, and False Negatives are specifically utilized to predict the metrics of a classification report.

re

The functions in this module allow you to determine whether a given text fits a given regular expression, known as a regular expression.

string

You can use the Python library NLTK, or Natural Language Toolkit, for NLP. A large portion of the data you might be examining is unstructured and contains text humans can read. Preprocessing that data is necessary before you can programmatically evaluate it.

Function

Description

pd.read_csv

DataFrame is read from a comma-separated values (csv) file. Additionally enables optional file iteration or file segmentation.

head()

The top five rows of the dataframe are shown by default when using Python's head method.

Function

Description

              shape

Using the shape function we can check how many rows and columns are present in the dataset.

Manual testing

The process of manually checking software for faults is known as manual testing. It requires a tester to act like an end user, using the majority of the application's capabilities to ensure proper behavior.

 pd.concat

We can add or merge two dataset using concat function.

 drop

The drop() function deletes the given row or column. The drop() method eliminates the selected column by specifying the column axis (axis='columns').

Function

Description

lower()

An all-lower case string is produced by the lower() function.

re.escape()

Automatically escaping each space.

re.sub()

The Python Regular Expressions (re) module contains the sub() method. All instances of the supplied pattern that match are replaced by the replace string in the returned string. We must import the re-module first before we can utilize this function.

 string.punctuation

A pre-initialized string called punctuation is utilized as a string constant. Python's string.punctuation function returns all available punctuation 

       apply()

In Python, this method serves the same purpose as map(). It applies a function that is provided as input to a whole DataFrame. When working with tabular data, you need to define the axis your function should 

TfidVectorizer

The TfidfVectorizer turns a set of raw documents into a TF-IDF feature matrix. Python implementation of Us with and Word2Vec word embeddings.

 fit_transform

It is used to train data in order to scale it and learn the scaling parameters.

LogisticRegression

Based on a collection of independent variables, logistic regression assesses the likelihood of an event occurring, such as voting or not voting. Because the outcome is a probability, the dependent variable is limited to values between 0 and 1.

LR.fit

Linear regression fits a line to the data in order to predict a new quantity, whereas logistic regression fits a line in order to optimally distinguish the two classes. The input data is given by X with n examples, and the output by y with one output for each input.

DecisionTreeClassifier

The DecisionTreeClassifier class may conduct multi-class classification on a dataset. If numerous classes have the same and highest probability, the classifier will forecast the class with the lowest index among those classes.